Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-07-22
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SHORT TALKS ABOUT MINOR LOCAL HAP
PENINGS.

SHORT TALKS ABOUT MINOR LOCAL HAP
PENINGs.
Next Monday will be the appointed time
for the Stonewall Band to leave for its
summer outing on Hopewell's Island, In
the North River. near Bridgewater.
Lexington has new Brass Band.
On Thursday night. August 4th, the
choir Of Trinity church, Staunton, will
give a concert at Masonic Hall. Harrison
burg.
The Harrisonburg jail has five inmates
two lunatics. and three in a "cage.'
An excursion will be run from Rich
mond to Stanton on Saturday night,
July SOth.
A horse had a leg broken near town one
day last week and had to be killed. He
was hauled to the Fertilizer Works east of
town.
The Galilean Fishermen of the United
States, colored secret society, will hold
their next annual meeting at Stanton.
Their meeting this year adjourned. ''no
day agreed upon,' at Petersburg, Friday
morning.
Several persons, ladies and gentlemen,
who went on the excursion to the Augusta
White Sulphur last week were "ducked''
in the water while out boating.
Friday last was St. SWithin's Day, and,
according to the old Scotch proverb, the
fair weather was to be followed by forty
days of dry weather. 1t has since rained.
It is trying to have to wait in the heat
of the sun for trains to move so that per-
SONS can cross the railroad to and from
Sears Hill.
Almost every day lately has seemed
warmer than the one preceding it.
There were 2,150 barrels of flour inspect.
ed in the city during the quarter ended
July 1.
VIM. Smith, colored, who figured in the
-four deal Of two months ago, was before
Mayor Shelter yesterday. This is the
third offense of larceny. Sent on to Grand
Jury.
Mrs. Belle Widmeyer, daughter of the
Rev. J. W. Howe, will deliver an address
to the U. B. Sunday school Bonneville
building) next Sunday morning at 9
O'Clock. Rev. Samuel Driver, of the
Tunker church, will preach at the same
place Sunday at IL clock.
Several days last week the murcury ven
tured to go beyond 1909 in the city. 1t
was reported two OR three times at 1929.
again at 1869 and still again at 1909. 1t
must have been In the sun to register such
figure as that, however.
AT Mr.. Tom Burke's saloon is me-
chanical wonder that was imported from
Paris. 1t is ''darkey dude" and it is
amusing to see the old fellow puff his Gig
arctic, turn his head from side to side,
open his mouth and eyes, hold his eye
glass to his eye, sc.
In front of the postoffice new curling
and pavement has been put down.
, Work on the city Poor House, on the
hill between town and the Water Works,
is progressing very nicely. The tin roof is
on. James M. Wilson is the contractor.
1t now appears that the story of the
young lady shootinga man in Rockbridge
last week for Injurious remarksabout her
character was canard.
All the carrier pigeons from Boston
that were liberated here June 25Jh, have
been heard from but one. ''Staunton"
reached home on the 9th June; ''Little
Bonnie" got there July 2; DARBY I'd"
stopped at a hospital in Philadelphia; an
other is housekeeping in Brooklyn and
will not leave, and the fifth has not shown
up.
A new fence adorns the front of Thorn
rose Cemetery.